heather, you were in washington and watched the sausage making happen. how much leverage do you think there is? >> that's a good question. i think unfortunately we may have to get through this period of time of complete detachment from reality. and then the conversation will shift as it will as people start to gear up for the midterms. people start looking out into the country again and saying, hey, we're still at about 8% unemployment out here. jobs are still the number one concern of voters. not on the donor class, but of voters. then there's going to be a whole, okay, we have all these recessionary spending caps, but what can we do to get people back to work. >> a bad deal can get baked in the interim. is it possible to create, when you talk about medicare, social security, some reporting suggesting that jack lew who is the president's chief of staff, in the last round of these said medicaid, no, no no can't touch medicare. >> medicare, i assume? >> no. this is on medicaid. medicare search more open. medicaid is a huge way of how the affordable health